London Bridge Stone Alcoves in Hackney Park - Ley Markers?

Hackney is full of surprises and little gems for those with eagle eyes and a craven for details. England's oldest public park Victoria Park has a fair share of treasures and ley line markers. In this post we're focusing on the Stone Alcoves brought here in 1860 as remnants of the demolished London Bridge 1831. It's unclear where these alcoves were kept for three decades before arriving as grand ley markers. Alcoves were placed in a few different spots in London including Guys Hospital and somewhere in Wandsworth. Two were ceremonially placed in Victoria Park . This one stands at Cadogan Gate and if you followed a straight line from the back of this alcove you'd walk into the heart of the Olympic site in less than five minutes. Elsewhere in the posts you'll find Murder Mile which charts one ley route into the site and this is another. This post will be updated with maps, grind references and images.

THIS ALCOVE WHICH STOOD ON
OLD LONDON BRIDGE
WAS PRESENTED TO HER MAJESTY
BY
BENJAMIN DIXON ESQRE JP
FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC
AND WAS PLACED HERE BY ORDER OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. COWPER
FIRST COMMISSIONER
HER MAJESTY'S WORKS AND PUBLICS BUILDINGS
1860

'London Bridge (Map: E-11) - Until 1750 London Bridge was the only bridge over the Thames in London. A bridge at this site dates from Roman times. The first stone London Bridge was built in 1176. This bridge eventually had houses, shops, and a church built upon it until they were removed in 1763. In 1831 it was replaced by a granite bridge designed by John Rennie. The Rennie London Bridge was replaced in 1972 and Rennie's bridge was dismantled and rebuilt in Lake Havasu, Arizona. One of the arches of the Rennie London Bridge still supports the southern end of the current London Bridge'
Source Charles Dickens Page

Searched online for illustrations of how they actually looked on the bridge and found these gems...You can see the alcoves aligning the bridge.

 

 

 

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